Dirk Gently's holistic detective agency

When I saw this show over a two-day one-night viewing marathon, it was so infectious that I found my writing voice heavily influenced for a week after. Kudos to quality.

Loved both seasons, which is rare, the second less than the first, kind of irked by the pessimistic new attitude displayed by Dirk, but people can't be cheerful all the time. Trauma, grief, loss, despair, all those negative things we would love to skip over, but life is not that easy. 

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Universe building first, there are people with superpowers - holistic is the term used, and a secret government task force - Black wing - exists to keep track of them and capture them alive and record their talents. I think they were born not made but the show keeps you guessing. And yes, this is adapted from a book written by Douglas Addams, of Hitchhiker's Guide fame.

Holistic people have the power to influence the universe, make it stop, and listen to their demands in return for an equal conversation. Sometimes they obey what the universe demands of them and things go crazy.

Our main character is a holistic detective, with his new partner. Antagonistically placed is a holistic killer with her new partner. One team saves lives, and the other team ends them, but they both work for the same boss. The planet spins, the universe self-corrects and the sun continues on track. Did you see that creepy video of the sun dragging our universe behind it as it travels through space?

Adds a very creepy fatalism to the concept of destiny, stay in your lane, eyes forward. If your life is predestined by a higher power, what exactly is individual free will? Do you have any real choice at all? And you won't ever know the answer.

But why do I like this so much? The bromance of course. Initially thought romance, but the show determinedly pairs males with females, so, shrug my shoulders and move on.

Mutually informed consent should be the priority. The adult parties don't matter as long as they loudly enjoy it, fully aware and happy. Love should be a celebration of life. Why wait for a funeral to value life? But people can be fools. You only love her when you let her go says passenger. Ok, let's actually talk about the story before I lose track of my train of thought.

Brother and sister, brother has a disease, which runs in the family. Sister babies him and overprotects him, brother has wanderlust and adventure thirst and meets a weird boy. The quirky boy has prophetic insight and a really crazy case to solve regarding a serial murderer. 

The strange boy is being chased by an assassin and a mysterious organization that wants to hold him prisoner and conduct life-threatening experiments on him. Just this dry synopsis is whetting your appetite for more, isn't it? 

There are a lot of twists and turns, and I won't reveal everything here. This show reminds me of sense8. 

don't worry darling netflix

Alright, first things first. It is unfair to judge a veteran singer against a veteran actor in an acting contest. (Not K-pop idols who are trained in multiple disciplines.) Then, add the 13-year difference in their ages, wow!  Of course, the young man had no chance.

At first glance, this is a movie set in the past, with outdated gender roles, nuclear weaponry, and a Cold War timeline? But that was a time of racial segregation. Strange things begin to creep one out. That tuna salad thing? Why say anything? Just let her bring it. Other guests will enjoy it. 

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Set in the present time, anti-feminist view and incel thought process. Just another computer simulation playing in your mind, like the matrix.

Your perspective makes such a huge difference here. For a woman, this is a horror story. For a man, this is a wish-fulfillment fantasy. Especially with the politics leaning so heavily into right-wing territory right now, and technology headed into brain chips territory, this could be a tale made true in the future. 

There is grace in symmetry, there is beauty in control, and the queen takes over. I got some ick factors in the first scene where we meet her but the focus is on the men in power. Is she a lesbian who assaults other women in the simulation and then mind-blurs them to forget? Why are people so horrible?

This is a super creepy retake on an idealized time when housewife was the only life path for a woman. And you don't even need to know the woman, as long as you can kidnap her. Or the company can do it for you. Times are not so different now, what are the rights of women?

What a horrible world, don't you want someone who knows you and loves you as the person you are? I mean you got a doctor for a spouse and you still wanted to cut her down. A well-paid sugar mama who put up with you, been in love with you, all you had to do was treat her with the bare minimum of respect.

I am editing this after the recent election, so wtf. Watching the news cycle - all those preventable deaths - where doctors don't raise a finger as patients bleed to death in front of them. First world problems where women are incubators but not human beings.

Stop consuming media that portrays this as ideal, stop following trad wife content. Decenter men. Matriach life goals. 4B all the way, babes.